FDP federal party conference 1957

52.542131 13.470925Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 31.7 " N , 13 ° 28 ′ 15.3" E



title	8th ordinary federal party congress
Serial number	8th
place	Berlin
state	Berlin
Hall	Schultheiss-Saalbau in the Hasenheide

Beginning	January 24, 1957
Duration (in days)	3

The Federal Congress of the FDP in 1957 held the FDP from 24 to 26 January 1957 in Berlin from. It was the 8th ordinary federal party conference of the FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Logo of the FDP federal party conference in 1957

Brochure: Berlin Program

Activity report by the Federal Managing Director Werner Stephan 1957

Course and resolutions

For the first time in the history of the FDP, a joint program of the federal party was decided. The Berlin program was intended to legitimize the FDP as a “third force” alongside the CDU and SPD . In this the party distanced itself from "Marxism and socialist experiments" and advocated property formation for everyone. The program called for measures to preserve the middle class and to create independent livelihoods. Citizens should be able to take precautions themselves for economic emergencies.

In its policy on Germany , the FDP strived for "peaceful reunification in a German empire with central Germany and the eastern regions in a free order". There is a commitment to ties to the West, whereby in contrast to the CDU “the contractual NATO contingent, i. H. an operational force under supranational command ”should be. In foreign policy, the FDP distinguished itself from the positions of the CDU. For example, a European security alliance "including Russia and the United States" was called for, and a European idea was propagated that should lead "to the idea of a greater Europe".

In addition to the chairman Reinhold Maier, his deputy Erich Mende and Willi Weyer, representing the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia, spoke .

Federal Executive

At the party congress of the Wuerttemberg sparked Reinhold Maier the Franks Thomas Dehler from as Federal Chairman of the FDP. Marie-Elisabeth Lüders was elected honorary president.

After this party congress, the federal executive board included:

Chairman	Reinhold Maier
vice-chairman	Erich Mende , Oswald Kohut , Willy Max Rademacher
Treasurer	Hans Wolfgang Rubin
Assessor	Ewald Bucher , Thomas Dehler , Herta Ilk , Eduard Leuze , Wolfgang Mischnick , Walter Scheel
Assessor of the entire board	Karl Atzenroth , Otto Bezold , Gerhard Daub , Hans-Günter Hoppe , Paul Luchtenberg , Günther Reichardt , Hermann Schwann
Representatives of the regional associations	Wolfgang Haußmann ( Baden-Württemberg ), Albrecht Haas ( Bavaria ), Rudolf Will ( Berlin ), Georg Borttscheller ( Bremen ), Edgar Engelhard ( Hamburg ), Baron Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm ( Hesse ), Carlo Graaff ( Lower Saxony ), Willi Weyer ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Wilhelm Nowack ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), Bernhard Leverenz ( Schleswig-Holstein )
Honorary President	Marie-Elisabeth Lüders

Web links

Commons : FDP Federal Party Congress 1957 - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Federal Party Congress - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

swell

Reinhold Maier: We want that - first we have to win Germany! Speech by the federal chairman of the FDP at the Berlin party congress on January 26 , 1957, Beuel-Bonn 1957.
Erich Mende : Political Accountability Report. Report of the Deputy Federal Chairman on January 24th, 1957 at the Federal Party Congress in Berlin , o. O. 1957.
Werner Stephan : Activity report from April 21, 1956 to January 24, 1957. 8th Ordinary Federal Party Congress in Berlin , Bonn 1957.
Willi Weyer : Economic and Financial Policy. Presentation at the Federal Party Congress on January 25, 1957 in Berlin , o. O. 1957.
No competitor for Reinhold Maier. FDP party congress without surprise . In: Sozialdemokratischer Pressedienst , H. 18, January 22, 1957, p. 7.
Reinhold Maier's return. To the FDP party congress in Berlin . In: Social Democratic Press Service , no. 21, January 25, 1957, p. 1.
Maier in the middle. Epilogue to the FDP party congress . In: Sozialdemokratischer Pressedienst , H. 23, January 28, 1957, p. 7.

literature

Jürgen Dittberner : The FDP. History, people, organization, perspectives. An introduction , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17494-5 .
Peter Juling : Programmatic development of the FDP 1946 to 1969. Introduction and documents. Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1977, ISBN 3-445-01529-5 .
Heino Kaack : On the history and program of the Free Democratic Party. Floor plan and materials , Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1976, ISBN 3-445-01380-2 .
Volker Stalmann (edit.): The FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. Meeting minutes 1949–1969 , 2 half-vols., Droste, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-7700-5338-4 .
Udo Wengst (edit.): FDP federal executive. The Liberals chaired by Thomas Dehler and Reinhold Maier. Minutes of meetings 1954–1960 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5163-7 .

Individual evidence

^ Heino Kaack: On the history and program of the Free Democratic Party. Ground plan and materials , Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1976, pp. 77-87; Berlin program as pdf on the pages of the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .
↑ Reinhold Maier: We want that - First we have to win Germany! Speech by the federal chairman of the FDP at the Berlin party congress on January 26 , 1957, Beuel-Bonn 1957.

[1] Heino Kaack: On the history and program of the Free Democratic Party. Ground plan and materials , Anton Hain Verlag, Meisenheim 1976, pp. 77-87; Berlin program as pdf on the pages of the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

[2] Reinhold Maier: We want that - First we have to win Germany! Speech by the federal chairman of the FDP at the Berlin party congress on January 26 , 1957, Beuel-Bonn 1957.